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Dr. Arun Lakhotia is Lockheed Martin Professor in Computer Science at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies. He is the benevolent dictator of the Software Research Laboratory. His main interests are in program analysis, malware analysis, program comprehension, reverse engineering, and program understanding. In a previous incarnation he led Team CajunBot in the DARPA Grand Challenges. His team developed CajunBot-II (aka RaginBot) a Jeep Wrangler based autonomous (self-driving) vehicle.

Status: Current MemberClassification: Director

Charles LeDoux

Charles LeDoux is currently a Ph.D. student on University Fellowship. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His current work is focused on automatic and scalable extraction of relationships between seemingly unrelated binaries. In his spare time he enjoys attempting to rule the world.

Status: Current MemberClassification: PhD student

Craig Miles

Craig is a PhD candidate pursuing state-of-the-art advances in static and dynamic malware analysis, most recently through application of concolic execution techniques. He previously received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Montana and BS in Mathematical Sciences from Oregon State University.

Status: Current MemberClassification: PhD student

Aaron Newsom

Aaron is pursuing a Masters degree in computer science, and is interested in the many faces of malware analysis. Recently he has been focusing on creating a scalable malware analysis platform. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Louisiana Tech University.

Status: Current MemberClassification: MS student

Vivek Notani

Vivek is a Research Scholar at the Lab He came here for his undergrad thesis in the spring 2013 semester, but can't seem to leave!. He is exploring the cyber security domain. His work at SRL includes reverse engineering, dynamic analysis and malware classification. Previously, he has worked on game development, 3D modeling, robotics and intelligent systems

Status: Current MemberClassification: MS student

Shailendra Gaekwad

Shailendra is working towards his MS in Telecommunications, and is research assistant in the lab. He helps with managing SRL's virtual malware testbed.

Status: Current MemberClassification: MS student

Alumni

Chris Parich

Chris Parich is an over-ambitous undergraduate programmer trying to change the world one unsolvable problem at a time. His crowning a achievement is the release of a new and improved disassembler. He is degree seeking in Computer Science with a concentration in Video Game Design.

Status: AlumniClassification: Undergraduate

Luke Deshotels

Luke Deshotels is pursuing a master's degree in computer science. His background is in computational neuroscience and machine vision, but he changed his focus to Android security after joining the Software Research Lab. Luke enjoys outdoor activities, video games, and table-top gaming.

Status: AlumniClassification: MS student

Suresh Golconda

Dr. Suresh Golconda is a graduate of ULL and currently works as a research scientist there. He works part time in SRL and the rest of the time building his own empire. His interests revolve around autonomous vehicles, both land and water based. He was part of team CajunBot. He has also dabbled in implementation of machine learning algorithms.

Status: AlumniClassification: Staff

Andrew Walenstein

After about 10 years of membership in SRL, Andrew has moved on to work with Blackberr. He served as the co-director of SRL and was the driving force behind Vilo. He was also an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the the Deparment of Computer Science. His main research areas are in malware analysis, reverse engineering tools, human-computer interaction, program analysis, software visualization, and software comprehension.

Status: AlumniClassification: Director

Davidson Boccardo

Davidson completed his Ph.D. in 2009 on interprocedural program analysis in the presence of call obfuscations, using Abstract Interpretation.

Status: AlumniClassification: PhD student

Radhouane Chouchane

Radhouane completed his Ph.D. in 2008 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbus State University.

Status: AlumniClassification: PhD student

Matthew Hayes

Matt completed his M.Sc. in 2008 and moved on to join the PhD Computer Science program at Case Western Reserve University.

Status: AlumniClassification: MS student

Aditya Kapoor

Aditya completed his M.Sc. in December 2004 and moved on to join McAfee.

Status: AlumniClassification: MS student

Enamul Karim

Enam completed his Ph.D. in 2008 and is joined the Center for Secure Cyberspace at Louisiana Tech as a Research Assistant Professor.

Status: AlumniClassification: PhD student

Eric Kumar

Eric completed his M.Sc. in December 2004 and moved on to join Authentium.

Status: AlumniClassification: MS student

Rachit Mathur

Rachit completed his M.Sc. in 2006 and moved on to join McAfee.

Status: AlumniClassification: MS student

Prashant Pathak

Prashant completed his MSc in 2003, and subsequently joined Symantec

Status: AlumniClassification: MS student

Anshuman Singh

Anshuman completed his Ph.D. in 2012 investigating challenges in the use of machine learning in malware detection.

Status: AlumniClassification: PhD student

Prabhat Singh

Prabhat Singh completed his MSc in 2002, and subsequently joined McAfee.

Status: AlumniClassification: MS student

Michael Venable

Michael completed his M.Sc. in 2005 and joined CBit as a Research Scientist.